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One car crash on Locust Street in Springfield sends driver to hospital

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A Ford F150 pickup truck teeters on an embankment over the rain swollen Mill River next to Locust Street in Springfield, after the driver lost control and spun the vehilce on the slick roadway.
(Mike Beswick,Republican )

SPRINGFIELD — An unidentified man lost control of the pickup truck he was driving on Locust Street Saturday afternoon, spun on a rain-slicked roadway, crashed through a chain-link fence and slid down a steep embankment. The truck ended up teetering on the edge of the swollen Mill River.

Witness Fernando Herrera said he saw the truck drive eastbound up a hill toward his 200 Locust Street building at approximately 4:45 p.m..

"He came up Locust and then he spun around, and then came across the street and down the (embankment). I couldn't believe what I was seeing," he said. "He was coming very fast."

Just a portion of the Ford F 150 front grill was visible from the roadway. Herrera said the driver, whom police refused to identify, climbed from the truck cab unassisted, but was taken from the scene to the Baystate Medical Center by ambulance.